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		asdfasgasdgasdg on June 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015) Elevator could also make a decent guess at fullness just by recording the discrete changes in weight. It wouldn't be perfect but again it would probably be better than allowing user input.

em-bee on June 13, 2021 [–]

i believe all elevators at least have a failsafe to refuse to run if they are overloaded. going from there to tracking and using the actual weight for its programming is not a big step

kqr on June 13, 2021 | [–]

Oh, elevators know to some accuracy how many people-mass things are in it. It just rarely has reason to use that information.

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